Some Native Americans set up _______________ or government that link several groups.

The most famous was the league formed by the ______________.

________ is a type of sun-dried mud brick.

Scientists believed that the _______ people arrived by boat to settle the Arctic regions of present-day Canada and Alaska after the Ice Age ended.

The Inuit people lived in _________.

East of the Mississippi River, two groups- the Adena and the _________- formed the mound-building culture.

The Hopewell were called _______________.

After the Hopewell people disappeared, the ______________ emerged.

The ____________ people were the first Native Americas in the Southwest to try farming.

The Anasazi people moved into the ________ and canyons of the Southwest and began farming.

The Anasazi thrived in present day ___________.

Francisco ___________ was a conquistador who conquered the Incans.

________ was the Incan emperor.

After being taken hostage what did Atahualpa offer Pizarro in exchange for his freedom?

What did Pizarro do with Atahualpa?

A _________ is a rope with knotted cords the Incas used to keep records.

The Inca people lived in the Andes mountains in present-day ________.

The Incan empire became the largest in the ancient ____________.

The Inca rarely made human sacrifices, but when they did, they often sacrificed ______________.

What disease weakened the Aztecs so that they couldn't fight against the Spanish again, leading to the fall of the Aztec empire?

Hernan ________ was a Spanish soldier who arrived in Mexico.

The Aztec emperor was _______________.

The Aztecs feared that Cortes was ______________, so they did not attack the Spaniards immediately.

Scientists believed that an area of dry land, called ____________, connected Asia and Alaska.

During the Ice Age, water froze into _____________.

As the ice froze, the seas ____________, exposing the land below.

Scientist think that hunting people from Asia followed _______ of animals across Beringia.

Farming began in the region called ______________. It stretched from the Valley of ________ to Costa Rica.

Early Americans developed maize or __________, which became the most important crop in the Americas

Olmecs practiced ritual ______________.

Olmecs produced large __________ as artwork.

What causes the decline of the Olmec?

The Maya built a civilization on ___________________.

The Maya had a fully developed _______________.

The Maya rulers believed they were descended from the ______.

Mayan people tried to please the gods by capturing enemies and offering them as _______________ to the gods.

The Mayan people also __________________ to try to please their gods.

Mayan writing was a system of ________________.

The ____________ took the Mayan cities in what is now Northern Mexico.

_________________, the feathered serpent, was the Aztec's sun god.

The Aztecs ended up on an island in Lake ____________.

The Aztec people were divided into four classes: ____________, ____________, unskilled laborers, and slaves.

Western Europeans wanted to find a route to _______ without having to deal with the Muslim countries between the two areas.

In what country were Isabella and Ferdinand the king and queen?

Columbus left for his voyage in August of _______.

Columbus landed in what he thought was Asia in October of that year, but he had actually landed in the _____________ Sea.

Columbus continued to explore and landed on the island of _____________, which is today Haiti and the Dominican Republic.

Columbus returned to Spain with riches, which convinced leaders to send him on another voyage. He left Spain with soldiers called ______________.

What was the name of the native people who lived on the island which Christopher Columbus conquered?